The Old Religion
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The following is the original version of the thread that was posted on the forum at www.islamicboard.com. a few days ago. If you go to that forum and register there, you will find the 'new' version in the General Chat section posted by xxxarabmalexxx, under the same title. The moderators ( who are honest and pious Muslims ) didn't like the original version, so they decided to make a few modifications to it.
Everything you see THERE in red was added by them. Everything you see HERE in italics was completely removed by them.
"This is the truth from your Lord; then , whoever wills let him believe, and whoever wills let him disbelieve...."
"Had your Lord willed, all the people on Earth would have believed. Do you (Muhamad) want to force people to become believers?"
"You (Muhamad) shall remind ; for your mission is but to deliver this reminder * You have no power over them."
Often I have asked myself why muslims today are divided into dozens of sects; why the social and political structure of our countries ( whose leaders claim they are Islamic ) is so feeble, that we are no longer a living and effective part of human history. It's as if we have become outside the margin of the page where history is being written, when, in ages past, we were at the headline of that page.
-Is it because of our small number? obviously not, for according to recent data, our number is well over one billion.
-Is it because of our lack of resources? The answer is no. Our lands, stretching from the Gulf to the Ocean, are among the richest on Earth.
-Is it because we are mentally incompetent? Another big NO. Over half of the so-called "brains" in the West are of Arab origin. 80% of them are muslims.The answer, I believe, is in our hearts. God does not help those who do not help themselves. We have strayed from God's path. We have done exactly what God warned us against in the last of his ten commandments
"Say (Muhamad) Come, let me recite to you what your Lord has really prohibited for you........This is My path; a straight one. You shall follow it, and do not follow other ways, lest they divert you from His path * These are His commandments to you , that you may be saved."
"Do not fall into idol worship, like those who divide their religion into sects, each party rejoicing in what they have."
This is the sad truth I see today. Muslims are divided into sects, each of which proclaims to follow the correct path , while condemning others as being false.
-The Sunni is proud to be a Sunni, and rejoices in what he has. He refers to his "sheikh" or whomever in Azhar or Saudi Arabia for guidance.
He idolizes the fellowship (sahaba) as though they were angels, and sometimes visits their tombs to pray and ask for blessings instead of turning to God ALONE.-The Shiite is proud to be a Shiite and rejoices in what he has. He refers to his "imam" in Iran or Iraq for guidance. He idolizes the direct descendants of the prophet Muhamad (God Bless his Soul ) as though they were angels and faultless, and sometimes visits the tombs of these "imams"- who are long dead and cannot benefit or harm him- to pray and ask for blessings, instead of turning to God ALONE.
-The Wahabi is proud to be a Wahabi and rejoices in what he has. He refers to the teachings of Muhamad bin Abdul-Wahab al- Najdi for guidance.
-The Habashi is proud to be a Habashi and rejoices in what he has. He refers to his "Sheikh al- Harari" for guidance.
And so on....Almost every day we see a new sect appearing.
Know that the only way muslims can unite is for them to resort to the Koran and THE KORAN ALONE as the only source of guidance.
As long as we follow the words of men, we will allways be divided. And as long as we remain divided, we will not be worth the weight of a fly in the motion of history, despite our growing number and our natural wealth."Among the people there are those who uphold baseless sayings (hadiths)
in order to divert others from the path of God, without knowledge, and take it in vain. These have incurred a shamefull retribution.""Let them produce a 'hadith' like this one (the Koran) if they are truthful"
"These are God's revelations that we recite to you truthfully; in which 'hadith' other than God and his revelations do they believe?"
Now I know what you're thinking "Look, he's another follower of Rashad Khalifa!! Another one of those 19'ers!!"
WRONG.
The 19'ers are just a sect, like all the others. And their leader, Khalifa, was just a MAN. And he commited some serious errors. He thought he had discovered something new, when in fact, he hadn't. His arrogance led him to declare that he was a "Prophet of the Covenant"!!!
It doesn't take a genious to realize that 99% of the so-called "Hadith Sharif" or "Sunna" are lies made up in the name of prophet Muhamad (GBHS). I have met many people throughout my life who have shared this belief, but never had the courage to speak their thoughts. None of them ever declared that they were a prophet!! Many of them have never even heard of Rasha Khalifa (May god forgive him for his error).
THERE IS NO PROPHET OR MESSENGER AFTER MUHAMAD (GBHS)
It never ceases to amaze me how some Muslems today attack Christians and say to them" You follow the Gospels??? Don't you know that the Gospels were corrupted? They are not the true words of Jesus Christ (GBHS) They were written a hundred years after him!!
Yet these Muslems themselves follow 'hadiths' that were recorded no less than two hundred years after Muhamad (GBHS) !!!Dear members, it is time you understood that the prophet Muhamad
(GBHS) never recited anything other than the Koran. He did not claim to have any other divine source of guidance other than the Koran. This is the truth that many of you refuse to believe."You (Muhamad) have no duty except delivering the message (Koran)"
"And when you (Mohamad) preach your Lord using the Koran ALONE, they run away in aversion."
"This (Koran) is the utterance of a noble messenger * It is not the utterance of a poet ; rarely do you believe * Nor the utterance of a soothsayer; rarely do you take heed * It (the Koran) is a revelation from the Lord of the Universe * Had he (Muhamad) uttered any other teaching, We would have punished him * We would have stopped the revelations to him."
Dear members, I have rejected all the known sects that muslims follow. I am a pure Submitter to God; a follower of the Old Religion; the religion of our father Abraham, who named us Muslems; Abraham who was neither Sunni, nor Shiite, nor Wahabi nor Habashi.
Final Word
I did not write this letter to attack any of you, nor to attack your religion. I wrote it to defend myself and the many others that hold fast to the same beliefs. We are not blasphemers. We pray and fast and give alms as you do. In the end, God will judge us, not you, nor your "sheikhs" or "imams" ( we do not recognize their authority anyway ). Remember that God gave us all brains with which to think and contemplate. He also gave us the freedom to believe what we want. The sad truth is that 99% of Muslims today follow what their parents and grand parents told them to follow. They heed the words of their "sheikhs" or "imams" without ever giving them a second thought. They have become blind to the truth, and , as a result, look where they are today....
I am sorry if i offended anyone,for that was not my intention.
I am sorry if this is not the proper place for this post. I couldn't think of any other place to post this thread. It just didn't seem to fit anywhere.
I am sorry for the length of this post, but please remember that it will be my last.May God bless and forgive us all.
Peace
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Peace Al Qadeem,
Impressive post! And I'm glad God lead you to find us here. As they say with regards to a certain sports team, 'You'll never walk alone' wink
What do they change in your original post? I guess they want to censor your 'subversive' words.
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Peace be upon you,
Very good post and I agree that the problem is "divisions of the Whole". The path of the obsessor is dividing and conquering. The Gods path is one of Unity, ONENESS.
With that said, I have one addition I would like to make to your post for those who agree that ONENESS is the correct path, opposite of division.
you stated Often I have asked myself why muslims today are divided into dozens of sects
If we start here, we are already in division because we are addressing "muslims" not humanity. When the God says;
"This is the truth from your Lord; then , whoever wills let him believe, and whoever wills let him disbelieve...."
..He is not addressing "muslims", he is addressing Humanity.
So we are already on the path of the obssessor(iblis).
What is it that causes us to start off in this position? What is it that defines "muslim" as oppossed to "christian"? It is the written BOOKS that each follows that CAUSE these distinctions. The God told us not to differentiate between the messengers, and the messengers spread the Message, so how do we have these "religions"? Surely Ibrahim did not belong to any of these "religions". Some want to say Ibrahim belongs to the Organized Religion of "ISLAM", but that started 1400 or so years ago so that is not possible.
Ibrahim was only submissive to the God, he strived to implement ONENESS. He was concerned with "the WHOLE", not any sects. Not ANY sects. One who acts in this manner is DESCRIBED, not named, as being peacefully submissive. This has been our description from the beginnning, the ancient "religion". When one looks upon humanity as being one being, how can we want to see harm to our own being?
Therefore lets deal with the word "quran". It is a word that means "reading". What we are being told to read is "Al Kitaab", or the Universe(the percievable Whole) which was written by the God. This reading(book being called quran) is a guide to Al Kitaab(The Universe), among other written pages that are here in this World. The God has not given us a religious text book to uphold, He has told us to uphold the TRuth of the Universe(Al Kitaab), that which is verifyable and leads to guidance. That which does not contradict, which is how the God tells us to distinguish between truth and falsehood. The God did not say to distinguish by it being called "Quran".
So we find that even thses "books", when incorrectly seperated, are idols as well. When we deal with TRUTH as oppossed to a TEXT, then these idols vanish and thier collective VERIFYABLE evidence will serve the WHOLE.
The God tells us to say something to the effect of "We trust in what was descended upon us and what was descended on those before us".
We must regain our true hieght of perception, ONENESS.
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Yes. I agree. But the reason I used the word "Muslim" instead of "people", was to show that the divisions exist even among those who claim that they unify God. Isn't this the main point of Submission??? To submit to the will of God ONLY and not to associate anyone or anything else ? All Muslim sects claim to unify God,( although in truth, they are as far from unifying God as the sky is to the earth ) and they all agree on the Koran being the
undisputed word of God.So if this is the case..why all the divisions then?? ?
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Peace be upon you,
All Muslim sects claim to unify God,( although in truth, they are as far from unifying God as the sky is to the earth ) and they all agree on the Koran being the
undisputed word of God.So if this is the case..why all the divisions then??
Because its not about unifying based on a TEXT, its about unifying based on ONENESS of BEING. We have to see our sepearte persons as ONE BEING, therfore we can say "We are the FIRST to submit" as do those who reach this level. We can only be the FIRST to submit if we see all as ONE BEING and we have joined this ONENESS.